According to the Wall Street Journal, Spotify is about to introduce a free mobile version. The new ad-supported offering will allow nonpaying mobile users to play a limited number of songs on demand, but will mostly serve up music based on the user’s input, much like custom radio services such as Pandora. This move makes […]

Exciting stuff going on over at Spotify: Today a new website for artists, www.spotifyartists.com, was introduced. On this website, Spotify gives – among other things – some interesting insights into their business model. So basically, Spotify take all the revenue from paid subscription and ads, keep 30% and multiply the rest by the times the […]

According to Techcrunch, Rdio is laying off people – allegedly up to 35 people or 25% of the work force – “to improve its cost structure and ensure a scalable business model for the long-term”, as TC quotes a Rdio spokesperson. In other words: Rdio’s investors are getting cold feet thinking about the burn rate. […]

Deezer just introduced the “Personal Music Feed” as well as “Deezer Editors”. Here’s a quick wrap up on what it’s all about, and how it compares to Spotify. The feed can be found as “Hear This” within Deezer. Looks pretty good – and quite similar to Spotify Discovery, released back in May. In the FAQ […]

About 90% of the time I use Spotify on my mobile. However recently I just so happen to travel a lot in regions with a bad network. ‘No problem’ I thought, ‘Luckily there are Offline Playlists in Spotify’. This worked quite well for a while, however I quickly ran out of space on my phone. […]

Recently Spotify’s Daniel Ek introduced Spotify Discovery (read the wrap up here). In his speech he pointed out the benefits of context for music discovery. So just to pick up his point, here’s what I think are the three stages of music discovery – radically simplified. 1) User searches 2) Recommendations 3) Context In the […]

Back in 2011 Spotify said that “Music is one of the most social things there is.” In what sounded like a threat they added “You’ll now start seeing new music posts and play buttons all over your newsfeeds.” And indeed, we did. Even when the posts became more balanced, I never really felt that it was […]

After the music streaming services Rdio, Rara.com and Deezer only recently entered the German market, yet another player will join the merry crowd : WiMP (yes… let’s hope they change their name for the English-speaking market!) is the name of the service, and users beta access can be requested on their German website www.wimp.de. So what […]